It became known as Biker Meth because the Hells Angels used the method.
I don't think drug laws work but this stuff is so dangerous that I'm glad it is illegal and thus harder to obtain. I just wish there was a way to help the addicted.
Posted on 11/16/2010 9:00:05 PM PST by dr_who
THE latest bad news from the world of methamphetamine is that makers of the drug have perfected a one-pot recipe that enables them to manufacture their highly addictive product while on the move, often in their car. The materials they need — a two-liter soda bottle, a few cold pills and some household chemicals — are easily obtained and easily discarded, often in a trash bag dumped along the highway.
There is, however, a simple way to end this mobile industry — and, indeed, most methamphetamine production. We’ve tried it in Oregon, and have seen how well it works. Just keep a key ingredient, pseudoephedrine, out of the hands of meth producers.
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Abandoning the war on drugs would condemn the weak to a hell on earth.
Instead, what about the Singapore solution: madatory execution for traffickers?
From a blog where the author was recalling filling out some paperwork while in Singapore:
“When I was filling out my customs form for Singapore, I was chilled to see the all-capital letters, “DEATH FOR DRUGS IN SINGAPORE.”
Continuing the war on drugs does exactly the same thing.
I have a family member in the grips of this. You’ve heard all the stories. As far as I’m concerned, they’re all true.
You must not live in a state where Sudafed is already something that requires you to register with the pharmacist every time you make a purchase. This is already in place throughout the midwest, including Texas, save for a few states.
Sudafed is still the most effective sinus/allergy medicine out there and it feels like you are being singled out for harassment when you have to go to a pharmacy counter and sign forms in order to buy it.
We do still have meth labs around here too, although I can’t tell you if it is higher or lower (the ADDICTS aren’t the ones registering at the pharmacy counters so there’s no apparent tracking).
So, in order to stop people who can’t use a drug responsibly, we punish the people who only want to take a pill so they can stop sneezing and choking on their own snot. How compassionate!
And how idiotic. More government unintended consequences. The meth heads probably already have figured out a work-around while we allergy sufferers are treated to more Big Brother.
Yes, you have a point, as things stand today. The weak get slammed by the justice system for holding what they need to stave off the pain of withdrawl, while at the same time they spiral down further with each hit.
It seems to me that the only two long-term choices we have here is to either abandon the fight - and so no more petty police harrassment - or adopt the Singapore solution - no more drugs available, as the dealers are all dead.
I have heard horror stories about Meth. People become animals.
With incredible collateral damage.
OK - I’m holding my breath for the environmentalists to get agitated about this toxic refuse....
They don’t have to cook it up here anymore...the Mexicans are making it in factories on the other side of the border and shipping it in.
It became known as Biker Meth because the Hells Angels used the method.
I don't think drug laws work but this stuff is so dangerous that I'm glad it is illegal and thus harder to obtain. I just wish there was a way to help the addicted.
Iowa passed a law that required stores to put sudafed behind the counter. I believe it also required you to sign for it. All reports claim this greatly curtailed the home grown meth labs. Now if we could just slow down the stuff coming over our southern border.
“Crystal is a self solving problem”
We have that law here in Maryland, too. I don’t consider it all that onerous to check in with the clerk when I buy Sudafed. They have my information on file. Anyway, if this is too much trouble, there is another form of Sudafed that doesn’t contain pseudoephedrine and doesn’t require you to get checked or sign anything. Seems to work just as well.
Meth is easy to smuggle in from Mexico.
They have no regard for anything.
LOL! I think you’re right.
Libertarians want to legalize it, including the manufacture of it, and the advertising of it.
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